The digital group did a bulk purchase of Northwest Digital Radio's Universal Digital Radio Controller or UDRC (PDF file). I picked up three of them as I want to tie my old weather station into the network, have one in my truck and have one for messaging at home. They fit onto a Raspberry Pi computer so you have a complete digital system for about $80 total plus a radio. Got a nice discount through the bulk buy so the price was right.
Spending tomorrow getting the box trailer ready for the Great Shakeout. I scoped out the school where we will be setting up - a couple good places but they are fenced off so we will need to get the gate opened. There is a small parking lot (20 spaces) but it is for faculty and will probably be pretty full - no room to manover my trailer so using that space is moot. The place I do want to park is a paved play area but Thursday morning is forecast to be dumping rain so unless the students are amphibious, we should have that space to ourselves.
Surf for a bit and then to bed.
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